1. Lack of a cohesive cast..
2. Copying SG1 episodes with Atlantis...
Posted on 08/21/2008 6:59:47 PM PDT by avalonmistmoon
Knowing that there is a lot of fans of the Stargate franchise. Sorry to report that both MGM and SciFi Channel cancelled Stargate Atlantis. There will be no sixth season. I, for one, will miss SGA and the "This week SciFi weekly thread" will not in a long time list a Stargate series. "sniff"
I was figuring I'd start with Atlantis after I completed SG1. Oh, well.
Sad but not unsurprising. The show has lost it’s edge and has lacked any new thrilling plots for a while.
Still, it’ll be sad to see it go. Wonder if there will be a “Stargate the next generation” or “Stargate Voyager”...
Sigh.
Mike
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Amanda Tapping is the most naturally beautiful woman actress today. That girl makes my ears sweat!
If I were to use the words that are appropriate to use for this news, I’d get banned. :-(
At least she’s in the top 1...
The good news, is that the series will be followed by a 2 hour SGA movie.
At it sounds like they may do more SG1 movies also.
The Ori win.
Plus there will be another Stargate TV Show...
Bring back Firefly and Jericho.
Oh, cripes. And I haven’t gotten over Firefly being cancelled yet.
I understand all the reasons and understand that shows have to have enough viewers to survive. So I blame the idiot public. Even lackluster episodes of SciFi are better than any stinking reality show or (yeeech) sitcom. (pardon the dirty word). Unless it’s a sitcom like Red Dwarf.
I miss Firefly too. Sigh.
But tell us more about this: Plus there will be another Stargate TV Show... Will it be a spinoff like Atlantis, or an entirely different show?
I mourned the demise of Bab-5. Bought the entire series and watched it in one session. That was a great Sci Fi series.
I miss Firefly and Babylon 5
I’ve never seen Bab-5. Perhaps I’ll check out a few episodes and see if it floats my boat.
Torri Higginson isn’t bad looking either. But I’m partial to brunettes.
Agree. But she's not even on this season's shows, having moved to another project. Still, I don't recall seeing anyone look better in Air Force dress blues, even if she is Canadian :)
Looks pretty bleak out there for good Sci-Fi
Yep, but I haven’t been much of a Sci Fi watcher for the last few years - other than Firefly and BSG (before it got silly). I wasn’t a Stargate fan, nor did I like the post TNG Treks (and I gave them all a chance), so it’s been bleak for me for a while.
Do yourself a favor and DON'T start at the beginning in Year 1, it started so slow it was a turn-off to me. I only got real involved in Year 2 and then went back to watch Year 1 later to fill-in the story line. It may be just me but if you do start at Year 1 - give it several episodes before saying yea or nay. Obviously I ended up watching it all and bought the DVDs and I want more even now.
I happen to agree with you on that part.. The episode that got me hooked on B5 was in season 2.. I’m not going to say the name
Interesting. I’m usually willing to give a show at least half a season before I decide. So as long as it picks up after the first few episodes, that’s okay with me.
The premise sounds interesting, but the writer/producer credits are somewhat concerning. I wouldn’t put Shark, Without a Trace, Jack and Bobby, Lara Croft, Tomb Raider at the top of my must-see picks. But still, an interesting premise.
The stars probably wanted to actually get paid.
TV is such a waste of time. The SciFi Channel and the nature channels are all I watch any more. I don’t much even bother with movies any more. Hollywood is dominated by mutant retards.
If I were a zillionaire, I would finance the sequel to Serenity.
Then people would call you a Fillionaire ;)
Oh, sad... I’ll miss them all. I have all ten seasons of SG-1, so I guess I’d better start rounding up the SGA seasons too. :o(
I like her and the Doctor Lady. Sorry to see it go, it did have some good things going for it.
Sorry to hear it.
They sure had some horrid evil blokes.
Not my pref but I liked the techy stuff.
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“Oddly enough, I’ve never seen an episode.”
It’s all your fault! Your the reason why they pulled SGA! If we’d had just one more viewer it could have been saved!...LOL
Thanks for the info!
I’m sorry to see SGA go. I liked it a lot better than SG1, but it really was starting to echo SG1 episodes.
I just picked up the Sarah Connors Terminator Season 1 DVD set, now we have this big space vacuum, Dr Who is gone except for reruns, no more Stargate except maybe another DVD.
If there was some brains in Hollywood which we all know is unlikely they would consider bringing back some old classics like Time Tunnel, or a revamped Lost in Space, myself I would get real interested in a Halo series on TV if not the big screen.
Don't you mean the Wraith?
That’s it. The Wraith as adversaries were not as cool as the Ori started out being. (In the end the Ori got lame.)
Blame reality TV. That crap is cheaper and easier to produce and for some reason people love it. I find most of it to be mindless garbage, but it is responsible for the demise of most good shows.
Yep, I think it’s going to be called ‘Stargate: Universe’ or something like that (hopefully they’ll come up with a better name) and apparently they find gates with 9 different whatchamacallits on them, although in Atlantis they only used the 8th one to get back and forth between galaxies, so why they even need a 9th one is completely beyond me. Oh, and now Stargate has officially beat Buffy for ‘number of good spin-offs from one movie nobody watched’.
Though I’ll have to admit the last episode of Atlantis, with the alternate-reality drive, was one of the most pointless I’ve ever seen. Aside from the fact that a similar plot was done before in SG-1, I still could not possibly think of why anyone could possibly have the desire, a plausible reason, or even the belief that it wasn’t a horribly bad idea, to just explore alternate realities at random.
It’s Robert Picardo’s fault. They should have kept Amanda Tapping...or even Tori Higginson.
Babes before Braun.
I watched the Sarah Connors Chronicles for the first time last week. I’m hooked. Who is the hot young thang who plays the “good” Terminator?
Nothing against Werner!
In a way, it’s too bad because the show wasn’t bad but on the other hand, it didn’t really stand out either.
One or two episodes per 10 episodes would really stand out and then there would be 5 episodes about escorting a princess brat or the new doctor not being a warrior.
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